Emily Austin (writer)
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Emily Austin is a
Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...
writer based in
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,
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, whose debut novel ''Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead'' was a shortlisted finalist for the 2022
Amazon.ca First Novel Award The Amazon Canada First Novel Award, formerly the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a Canadian literary award, co-presented by Amazon.ca and ''The Walrus'' to the best first novel in English published the pre ...
. Born and raised in St. Thomas, Ontario, she studied English literature, religious studies and library and information science at the
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. ''Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead'', her debut novel, was published in 2021.Mel Woods
"Death is around every corner in this queer author’s grimly funny debut novel"
''
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'', July 7, 2021.
In addition to the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the book was also longlisted for the 2022
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, also known as the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour or just the Leacock Medal, is an annual Canadian literary award presented for the best book of humour written in English by a Canadian writer, publis ...
, and shortlisted for the 2022
Ottawa Book Award Ottawa Book Award and Prix du livre d'Ottawa is a Canadian literary award presented by the City of Ottawa to the best English and French language books written in the previous year by a living author residing in Ottawa.
for English fiction. In 2024 she published her second novel, ''Interesting Facts About Space'', and the poetry collection ''Gay Girl Prayers''. She released her third novel, ''We Could be Rats'', in January 2025. She identifies as
queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...
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